Study abroad with CLI and enjoy travel excursions, daily one-on-one language lessons and much more while studying at one of China’s most beautiful institutions of higher learning, Guangxi Normal University (GXNU). Have the time of your life and emerge speaking Chinese!

Founded in 1932, GXNU maintains an annual student population of nearly 25,000 and offers a wide range of academic disciplines. CLI and GXNU welcome you to study abroad in China!

CLI's College Study Abroad program is specifically designed for current college students and also non-degree seeking students wishing to enroll full-time at a Chinese university.

Standard vs. Intensive
GXNU coursework is at the core of CLI's study abroad program. The main difference between the standard and intensive College Study Abroad program is the amount of one-on-one time you spend with your Chinese language instructor. CLI's standard program includes three weekly hours of one-on-one language instruction, while the intensive program includes ten weekly hours.

Please reference CLI's Intensive Option for more details.

Earn College Credit with CLI 
As CLI is officially affiliated with Guangxi Normal University, CLI directly issues GXNU transcripts for all coursework completed while abroad. Over 150 international universities have accepted GXNU transfer credit, including most recently Arizona State University, Virginia Tech, University of Wisconsin, and Wake Forest. Please reference the following list of colleges and universities that have formal or informal relations with GXNU:

Guangxi Normal University International Cooperation List

All CLI students are responsible for arranging credit transfer with their home university. Most colleges and universities have an "Authorization to Take Courses Elsewhere" form or an equivalent. Please contact your study abroad office for more details in order to ensure that your CLI course credit successfully transfers.

Spring/Fall Semester:  15-18 credits (6-9 Chinese language credits, 6-9 liberal arts credits)

Summer Session:  6 credits (all Chinese language)

Winter Session:  3 credits (all Chinese language)

Please see the Curriculum page for exact course titles.

CLI's Pengyou Program (朋友项目)
Actively engaging in direct cultural exchange is a crucial part of studying in China. In order to help foster this opportunity, CLI has created an optional add-on to your Immersion Program – the Pengyou Program – at no additional tuition cost.

The Chinese word for friend (pengyou, 朋友) includes two moon characters (月) side by side. Only through the passage of time, and with the passage of each moon, can a friendship be built. At CLI, we strive to provide an educational environment that leads to lifelong friendships, and the Pengyou Program is just one way we pursue this goal.

If you choose to take part, CLI will match you with an outgoing student from our local university affiliate who has also applied to join the Pengyou Program. We interview all candidates and make selections primarily based on personality and enthusiasm. We also require all pengyous to speak standard Mandarin, although many may also be excited to practice their English.

By taking part in the Pengyou Program, we ask both you and your pengyou to agree to the following:

1. Local pengyous will take part in your orientation meeting, welcome lunch or dinner, and farewell dinner. CLI pays for these meals.

2. Pengyous will have at least one meal together per week outside of CLI. No other international students are allowed to take part, but your local pengyou can invite his or her own local pengyous. You (the CLI student) are responsible for paying for your and your pengyou's meal, but your pengyou's pengyous pay their own way.

3. You and your pengyou should take part in at least two activities together outside of CLI per month. As with the previous obligation, we strongly encourage that no other international students take part. Pengyous are expected to share the cost, if any, of the activity, but we also encourage you and your pengyou to take part in free or low cost activities. Possible activities include visiting a park, arcade or shopping area, playing sports or board games together, or going to the local market to buy fresh produce to cook a meal together.

If you would like to swap pengyous for any reason, you may change one time per two months of your stay at CLI. In this instance, please inform Leona, CLI's activities coordinator, and she'll gladly accommodate. If interested in taking part in CLI's Pengyou Program, simply select "Sign Me Up!" when prompted on CLI's application form.  :-)


 Kevin Keller, College Study Abroad Student
"CLI is the second study abroad program in which I have participated, and I could not be more pleased with my experience in Guilin. My one-on-one teachers traveled with me around town and were constantly there to help me with my Chinese studies."
- Kevin Keller, Arizona State University, B.A. Double Major in Economics and Chinese

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